working title No. 5

A pilgrimage through sacred spaces, profane realities, and everything in between!

exhibition of experimental art+music

MAY 28 - 30, 2026, 6:00 – 9:00 PM → ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL

Project [BLANK]’s annual exhibition returns to close the season with a festival of innovative local art and music. This year’s WORKING TITLE fills the soaring gothic halls of St. Paul’s Cathedral with bold visual art, multimedia installations, performance art, and live experimental music from a diverse group of transborder artists.

This year, WORKING TITLE centers on the theme of Sanctuary. What defines a sacred or protected space? What boundaries—physical, social, spiritual—are drawn to offer refuge to those under threat? We invite artists to submit works that engage with sanctuary as a personal experience, a collective practice, an architectural condition, or a political act of resistance.

At its center is the world premiere of a major new work by San Diego composer Michelle Lou—a mind-melting composition for voices, tubas, pipe organ, and electronics—surrounded by three days of new works, installations, and thought-provoking performances from some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California.

The exhibition is curated by sculptor Diana Benavídez and Artistic Director Leslie Ann Leytham, and artist submissions will be reviewed by a panel of artists: Alessandra Moctezuma, Alvaro Díaz, Cat Gunn, and Luisa Martínez.

artists

performance art

ANGIE JENNINGS

sculpture

APRIL ROSE

sculpture

ARMANDO DE LA TORRE

video art

carolina montejo

sculpture

claudia cano

performance art

FRANKIE MARTIN

performance art

JAIME LEYNES

sculpture

joe canrell

music performance

gabriel arregui

music performance

ANQI LIU

dance

DIA BASSETT

music performance

don nichols

music performance

DUO LINGUA

music performance

jonathan nussman

music performance

JONATHAN Piper

video

Leila K Aghdami

music performance

leslie ann leytham

music performance

julia anne cordani

sculpture

maddie butler

music performance

marguerite brown

music performance

mattie barbier

music performance

melissa achten

sculpture

matthew hebert

composer

michelle lou

sculpture

shar garcia

sculpture

tasia paulson

music performance

william kuo

video

sophia cleary

sculpture

yerbamala

sculpture

waniuk+
bourdeau

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